>
> you thoroughly glossed over one of the most important points
> in yesterday's posts -- geekdom is still so new, still so
> unchartered, that it is still a verbal, not a literate,
> tradition. your mo, to conquer all the literature and then
> parse it thoroughly, won't work here. the docs that exist
> aren't that authoritative.
Rubbish. Do you have any idea how old the Jargon File is? Geekdom has been writing things down since there was a network to send them through.
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Joseph Noonan Houston, TX jfn1 at msc.com